Grains of Sand

Pixabay It would be safe to say that our friends to the south are feeling some anxiety as November approaches. I don't blame them. How do you choose when there appears to be no choice? And we in the north have our problems too when it comes to those in political and economic authority who have lost contact with the real world of their constituents—if they were ever connected at all! Well, Isaiah has an observation for all of us who are feeling a little, or a lot, overwhelmed. " Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? He [God] sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,  and spreads them out like a tent to live in. He brings princes to nought and reduces rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the groun...